Endangered Ecosystems Act
The Endangered Species Act isn’t enough: we need an Endangered Ecosystems Act.
As Alice Henderson points out in her thriller A Ghost of Caribou on pages 138 and 139 (and I’m paraphrasing below, because I don’t want to plagiarize):
Governments do things like tranquilize wild animals and relocate them, but they ignore the elephant in the room: they need to confront old growth logging and climate change if they reall want to help creatures like Caribou. Furthermore, as the book also points out, all respect to the Endangered Species Act, but… we also need an Endangered Ecosystems Act. Everything in the environment is interconnected, and an Endangered Ecosystems Act would take that into account and protect the entire ecosystem, thus protecting all the wildlife in a specific region.
People who work in the logging industry can — like people who work in the fossil fuels industry — instead work in renewable energy. It’s high time we take climate chaos seriously and have the infrastructure to survive in this reality.
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